29 Mar 2018

Photo of the week: Israeli ambassador Mark Sofer visit

L-R: Mark Zeimann, Prof Sam El-OSta, Prof Mark Cooper, Ambassador Mark Sofer, Prof Paul Zimmet and Vivienne Zimmet
On the 22/03/2018 the Department of Diabetes welcomed Israeli ambassador, Mark Sofer for a tour of the state-of-the-art diabetes laboratories.



What's on at CCS 4-6 April 2018

Jasper Cornish, seen here at a 2017
Day of Immunology event, is giving

his PhD mid-candidature presentation
on Wednesday 4 April 2018.
Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.
CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page.

See CCS seminar index:  https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar

What's on at CCS 4-6 April 2018

Wed04/04/201811:30PhD Mid-Candidature Milestone: Jasper Cornish
13:00MSurgery Confirmation Milestone: Katherine Martin
Thur05/04/201811:30Cutting Edge Journal Club: Jennifer Boer
12:00Alfred Grand Rounds


12:30MPhil Progress Milestone: Mahtab Parvaresh

Forthcoming events 9-13 April 2018

Recent CCS publications: 24-29 March 2018

Dr Dan Andrews (2nd from right) and his group work on natural
killer cells. Dan is co-author on a paper reviewing unconventional

T cell targets for cancer immunotherapy.
Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.


  • Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
  • Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
  • Diabetes
  • Gastroenterology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)
  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Surgery 
  • Alfred trauma program hits home with teenagers; study

    Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.)
    program is a trauma prevention and health promotion initiative
    by Anne Crawford

    Research evaluating an injury awareness program run at The Alfred Hospital that uses vivid clinical reality has demonstrated the program’s effectiveness in changing perceptions of risk-taking in adolescents.

    Research needed for autoimmune hepatitis patients' salvage therapy

    Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic inflammatory liver disease
    not readily treatable for 20% of patients
    by Anne Crawford

    Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic inflammatory liver disease. The condition is treatable for the large majority of patients. The 20 per cent or so of patients who don’t respond well to standard medicines are treated with “salvage therapies”, but until now these have been inadequately scrutinised for their efficiency and safety, a new paper says.

    Monash University researchers in the Department of Gastroenterology at The Alfred Hospital have conducted a rare, comprehensive review of salvage therapies resulting in findings that could benefit clinicians and their patients with the disease globally.

    Central Clinical School hospitals achieve top results in FRACP examination

    Recent successful FRACP examinees celebrate their pass
    Congratulations to our Basic Physician trainees from Central Clinical School hospitals, who achieved an exceptional pass rate in the recent (delayed) FRACP examination! 

    Alfred Health trainees achieved a 100% (31/31) pass rate and Peninsula Health trainees achieved an 86% (18/21) pass rate.   We would like to congratulate all the trainees for such an outstanding achievement. We would also like to congratulate all our education staff at Peninsula and Alfred Health who co-ordinate the teaching programs from undergraduate through to postgraduate medical education.

    This is a testament to the outstanding education leadership and support for trainees at both sites.

    27 Mar 2018

    2018 MIME Seed Fund meeting invitation

    Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) is preparing to launch its annual seed fund. The 2018 MIME Seed Fund will be launched through a series of affinity meetings with our partner hospitals. Researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these meetings if they are interested in collaborating with clinicians as part of the 2018 MIME Seed Fund.

    Click on the links below to RSVP to attend the meetings and check details of location etc.

    26 Mar 2018

    Media mentions: Diabetes and PBS listings

    New diabetes medicines added to PBS list. Image: Channel 9
    25 Mar 2018: Channel 9 story, "New diabetes medicines hit PBS". Excerpt:

    Monash University's Professor Mark Cooper said new medicines were needed to help people who were struggling to maintain healthy blood sugar levels.
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